Penn State group combats intoxicated sex
Jenna Ekdahl
Issue date: 4/8/08 Section: News
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (U-WIRE) - Pennsylvania State University Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance adviser Spring Cooper thinks only when students are cognizant enough to tackle a Rubik's Cube are they capable of having sex.
"Wait until you can do the puzzle, then you're safe to have sex," Cooper said.
Starting this weekend, FMLA, an on-campus organization that works to develop strategies and programs to advance women's equality, will distribute Rubik's Cubes, among other puzzles and toys, in an effort to promote awareness about safer sex.
The campaign, called Sober Sex is Safer Sex, is funded by a mini-grant from the Penn State Commission for Substance Abuse Prevention and will run for several weeks to raise awareness about safer sex, Cooper said.
The toys will have messages attached to them about practicing safe sex while sober. The idea behind the toys is that people need cognitive processing skills to solve the puzzles, Cooper said.
Activities that raise awareness and get students thinking and talking about their sexual behaviors are a good thing, University Health Services Marketing Manager Beth Collitt said.
"Certainly the toys that they're handing out will do it because it will help you stop and think for a minute about how impaired you really are," Collitt said.
Fliers with redesigned road signs with sayings such as "Do Not Enter While Intoxicated" will soon be prevalent throughout campus and downtown to remind people of the campaign's message, Cooper said.
"A lot of people don't really think of a drunk hookup as a problem ... because it was when they were drunk, so they don't think of it as counting," Cooper said. "Things that could possibly happen are still there."
Pregnancy, sexual assault and rape are several consequences Cooper outlined that relate to having unprotected sex or having sex while intoxicated. From 2004-06, 282 Penn State students sought assistance for sexual assault, according to "Policies, Safety, & U," a University publication that reports statistics about crime in the Penn State community. Of those incidents, 217 involved drugs or alcohol.
"Wait until you can do the puzzle, then you're safe to have sex," Cooper said.
Starting this weekend, FMLA, an on-campus organization that works to develop strategies and programs to advance women's equality, will distribute Rubik's Cubes, among other puzzles and toys, in an effort to promote awareness about safer sex.
The campaign, called Sober Sex is Safer Sex, is funded by a mini-grant from the Penn State Commission for Substance Abuse Prevention and will run for several weeks to raise awareness about safer sex, Cooper said.
The toys will have messages attached to them about practicing safe sex while sober. The idea behind the toys is that people need cognitive processing skills to solve the puzzles, Cooper said.
Activities that raise awareness and get students thinking and talking about their sexual behaviors are a good thing, University Health Services Marketing Manager Beth Collitt said.
"Certainly the toys that they're handing out will do it because it will help you stop and think for a minute about how impaired you really are," Collitt said.
Fliers with redesigned road signs with sayings such as "Do Not Enter While Intoxicated" will soon be prevalent throughout campus and downtown to remind people of the campaign's message, Cooper said.
"A lot of people don't really think of a drunk hookup as a problem ... because it was when they were drunk, so they don't think of it as counting," Cooper said. "Things that could possibly happen are still there."
Pregnancy, sexual assault and rape are several consequences Cooper outlined that relate to having unprotected sex or having sex while intoxicated. From 2004-06, 282 Penn State students sought assistance for sexual assault, according to "Policies, Safety, & U," a University publication that reports statistics about crime in the Penn State community. Of those incidents, 217 involved drugs or alcohol.
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Eric Ayite
posted 4/08/08 @ 5:32 AM CST
We all know that our judgment is poor when we are intoxicated and poor judgment very often leads to poor decision and actions. The consequence of poor actions and decisions in our intimate encounters ranges from unwanted pregnancies to STDs
Eric Ayite
Derrick Eide
posted 4/08/08 @ 9:37 AM CST
WTF?!?!?!
Fusty
posted 4/08/08 @ 10:59 PM CST
I call Bull on this one. I can do the Cube whilst fully inebriated. I have solved then passed out. Now, doing the cube just before getting busy will surely scare away the partner, so I guess maybe this isn't such a bad idea. (Continued…)
dariuspomaha
Dariuspomaha
posted 4/09/08 @ 1:44 PM CST
Maybe Penn State is full of geniuses who all know how to solve a Rubik's Cube, but most people, even when completely sober, have no idea how to solve one. (Continued…)
Martin Stewart
posted 4/09/08 @ 3:53 PM CST
Logic return of the cube is HIDDED
This world is innocent 19982-2003 NONE CHAMPIONSHIP
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqlke2ZyRU
fanwuq
posted 4/09/08 @ 8:04 PM CST
Yes! More intoxicated sex for me!!!!!!
(actually I'm not old enough to drink yet, but I think I can still sub-30 drunk!)
People have gotten sub-15 drunk!
I'll try this someday, when I'm outside of the US. (Continued…)
Jason
posted 4/12/08 @ 1:36 AM CST
Drunk guy cubing ->
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1236323/cubing_while_drunk/
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